Month: April 2006

…The US must borrow more than $2 billion per day from foreigners to finance its huge trade deficits. In 2005, for example, there was a record deficit of $805 billion. And now global economists tell us that Medicare will go...

Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourself Come on in! Coffee & Tea under the window, platters of treats on every table Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door Please recommend (and unrecommend the...

I woke up last night and I felt the bed was wet.  The first thing I thought is I’m reverting to childhood.  Woe is me, a trip to the store for Depends.  Then I thought George or Cat were trying to wake me...

Outside, the sun is shining, and birds are singing of the renewal of Spring. The trees have new buds appearing on their branches. Small children are playing in the parks on jungle gyms, laughing and screaming, running and...

“[I]n times of crisis it’s interesting that people don’t turn to the novel or say, ‘We should all go out to a movie,’ or ‘Ballet would help us.’ It’s always poetry. What we want to...